216m and 10,000 feet... Photo 3

216m and 10,000 feet...

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February 8th 2009
Our first stop from Cape Town was Plettenberg Bay. We hopped on the Baz Bus, which is a backpacker’s bus that you can hop-on and hop-off all the way along the coast right up through Swaziland and up to Johannesburg. Our first journey to “Plett” started at 8am and was going to take around ten hours. We were dreading it the night before but in next to no time we were over half way and having l ... read more

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After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug... ... read more